Benchmade knives come with an excellent pocket clip that will grab into your pocket tighter than the IRS on April 15th. Of course, this otherwise praiseworthy feature also makes the knife that much harder to bring into action quickly. Whatever that action might be does not change the aforementioned fact. Exacerbating that potential issue is the fact that some among us have dry or calloused hands that impede a solid purchase on anything short of wet super glue. Well, there's a solution to that issue regardless of one's skincare regimen, and I have applied it to nearly all of my Benchmades.
First, Talon Grips makes a generic sheet of their pistol grip material intended to be cut into custom shapes. Here is an anticlimactic photo of said material.
Second, Benchmade has excellent customer service and will send you (for free) as many spare pocket clips and, more importantly, the accompanying screws, as you ask for. (I suppose that there is a limit, but I asked for three sets, and they didn't even begin to fuss. They wouldn't even
let me pay for them, and I, following their good example, didn't even begin to fuss either.) If you are still with me, what follows is my method for making a Benchmade knife grabbier on the draw.
Trace the pocket clip by running a pencil over some paper. Cut out the clip-shaped part of the paper and use that as a template to trace its outline onto the paper backing of the Talon material. Trim the shape from the Talon material with a hobby knife and clean it up with scissors to a degree commensurate to your level of neurosis. Apply to the clip as per below. While most of my Benchmades are Griptilians, the upper knife is the Adamas with the bare (and slippery) metal clip, and the bottom is the Mini Adamas with Talon applied. Your trigger finger will readily engage the Talon material. In case you're wondering why I left the full-sized Adamas stock, it's because I don't carry it. It weighs a ton, and I... don't.
By far the easier part of this mod is to add the spare screws (using a #6 Torx driver) to the clipless side of the ambidextrously designed scales. See? The object is to install the screws just enough to fully grab the liner but to allow plenty to stick out for your thumb to dig into while drawing the knife. I recommend using LocTite, because there is no significant friction keeping the screws in place and having them fall out is far less of an issue than having them scraping the blade. (In the absence of the clip, the screws can actually reach the blade.) Be careful if using LocTite around finished wooden scales. Loctite and wood finish are mortal enemies. I had to refinish an entire wooden rifle stock years (decades) ago when I unknowingly introduced the two.
Below is essentially the positioning by which I grip my Benchmade when drawing from the pocket, and although it doesn't look like much of a mod, it makes an immense difference. "It just works."
Edited due to insufficient sarcasm.